‘Hit the fuel!’ I barked at my translator behind the wheel of our tiny rental automotive.

‘Let’s get the f*** out of right here!’

We tore off – and left the reflections of two cartel males shrinking in our rearview mirror.

Reporting on the bottom in northern Mexico comes with sure dangers and chief amongst them is unexpectedly coming face-to-face with gunmen.

I might come to La Linea Cartel territory, an enormous excessive desert area west of Ciudad Juárez, to doc part of the migrant disaster that few ever see: the smuggling of harmful criminals into America.

Juárez is a crime-ravaged metropolis on the junction of the New Mexico, Texas and Mexico borders.

Over the previous three years, tens of 1000’s of migrants have traveled right here to willingly flip themselves over to U.S. Border Patrol brokers exterior of El Paso, Texas.

These migrants hope to hitch the various thousands and thousands, who’ve been processed and launched into the U.S. on the only situation that they finally produce a respectable cause for being within the nation.

However a couple of miles west of Juárez, it is a totally different story.

Right here, migrants – at nice expense and appreciable danger – do the whole lot they will to keep away from American legislation enforcement. That is as a result of some have legal data that will necessitate their prompt elimination from the U.S.

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[Read the rest at the Daily Mail.]